DOCX & Excel Extractor — Word, Spreadsheets, Google Drive, Dropbox

Word document extractor — DOCX to text, paragraphs, tables, and structured data via this Word file parser for .docx and Excel .xlsx. Document text extraction from direct URLs, Google Drive share links, and Dropbox URLs. Batch up to 50 files per run. $0.005/file.

⚡ Run in 30 seconds

Paste any Word or Excel URL and click Start:

# Word document (direct URL)
https://example.com/report.docx

# Google Drive share link (auto-resolved)
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1BxiMVs0XRA5nFMdKvBdBZjgmUUqptlbs74OgVE2upms/view

# Dropbox share link (auto-resolved)
https://www.dropbox.com/s/abc123/data.xlsx?dl=0

Perfect companion to PDF Text Extractor — same workflow, now for Office documents.

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Use cases

• LLM ingestion: Extract Word doc content and feed directly into Claude, GPT, or any RAG pipeline
• Spreadsheet → JSON: Convert Excel reports into structured JSON for databases or APIs
• Document processing pipelines: Batch-convert DOCX/XLSX archives to searchable text
• Data extraction: Pull tables from Word documents or rows from Excel sheets
• Content migration: Extract content from legacy Office files for CMS import

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Output — Word (.docx)

{
  "index": 1,
  "url": "https://example.com/report.docx",
  "file_type": "docx",
  "ok": true,
  "paragraph_count": 42,
  "word_count": 1850,
  "char_count": 11200,
  "heading_count": 8,
  "table_count": 2,
  "full_text": "Executive Summary\n\nThis report covers...",
  "headings": [{"text": "Executive Summary", "level": "Heading 1"}],
  "paragraphs": [{"text": "This report covers...", "style": "Normal"}],
  "tables": [{"table_index": 0, "rows": 5, "cols": 3, "data": [["Name", "Value", "Date"], ...]}],
  "metadata": {"title": "Q3 Report", "author": "John Smith", "created": "2026-01-15T10:00:00"},
  "fetched_at": "2026-08-08T07:00:00Z"
}

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Output — Excel (.xlsx)

{
  "index": 1,
  "url": "https://example.com/data.xlsx",
  "file_type": "xlsx",
  "ok": true,
  "sheet_count": 3,
  "total_rows": 2500,
  "sheets": [
    {
      "name": "Sales",
      "row_count": 1001,
      "col_count": 8,
      "headers": ["Date", "Product", "Region", "Revenue", "Units", "Cost", "Margin", "Rep"],
      "rows": [["2026-01-01", "Widget A", "North", "5400", "36", "2160", "60%", "Alice"]]
    }
  ],
  "fetched_at": "2026-08-08T07:00:00Z"
}

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Input options

Field	Default	Description
urls	—	List of .docx or .xlsx URLs (up to 50)
url	—	Single file URL (shortcut when urls is empty)
outputFormat	full	full includes all text/tables/rows; summary returns metadata + truncated text
maxRowsPerSheet	1000	Max rows per sheet for Excel files (up to 100,000)
limit	50	Max files per run

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Pricing

• $0.001 flat per run start
• First 1 file per run is free
• $0.005 per successfully extracted file (after the free tier)

Example: 1 Word document = free (just run start cost). 10 documents = $0.046

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Supported formats

Format	Extension	Notes
Word 2007+	.docx	Full text, paragraphs, headings, tables, metadata
Excel 2007+	.xlsx	All sheets, headers, rows as JSON arrays

Legacy .doc (pre-2007 binary format) is not supported. Convert to .docx first using Word or LibreOffice.

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See also

• PDF Text Extractor — Same workflow for PDFs, including OCR for scanned documents
• Image OCR Extractor — Extract text from images using Tesseract OCR

Keywords: DOCX extractor, Word to text, document parser, text extraction, NLP pipeline, Word file reader, .docx converter, Google Drive, Dropbox, batch document processing

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Related actors

• Excel Extractor — .xlsx and .xls to JSON, same URL + Drive/Dropbox pattern for spreadsheet extraction
• PDF Text Extractor — PDF parsing including OCR for scanned documents alongside DOCX extraction
• Image OCR Extractor — Tesseract OCR for image-only content that can't be extracted by DOCX/PDF parsers

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